Marmaduke Grove

Marmaduke Grove Vallejo (6 July 1878-15 May 1954) was a Chilean general who served as a member of the ruling junta of the Socialist Republic of Chile in 1932. In 1933, he co-founded the Socialist Party of Chile.

Biography
Marmaduke Grove Vallejo was born in Copiapo, Chile on 6 July 1878, and he joined the Navy in 1892 and was expelled from the navy after taking part in a failed uprising. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1897, befriending Carlos Ibanez del Campo and Arturo Puga. He studied artillery tactics in Germany from 1906 to 1911, and he served in the Tacna garrison from 1912 to 1917. In 1924, he and 56 other military officers rattled their sabers in protest at their low salaries, leading to the military coming to threaten President Arturo Alessandri, who soon resigned rather than become their pawn. Del Campo made Grove the Chilean military attache to London as a means to keep him out of the country, and he secretly met with Alessandri and promised to help him bring democracy back to Chile. The coup failed in 1930, but, after Del Campo's fall in 1931, Grove returned to Chile from exile in France. In 1932, he was made Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force by President Juan Esteban Montero, and he took part in the coup which led to the creation of the Socialist Republic of Chile. In 1933, alongside Salvador Allende, he co-founded the Socialist Party of Chile, and he was elected a Senator in 1934. He retired from the Senate in 1949 and died in 1954.